Written, produced and directed by Rene Guerrero and Dee Schore, Miasma Film Group(Dallas, TX)

Extreme Orchestra !! Opening Night
(2005), featuring the orchestral music of Michael Schelle, is an
in-depth "behind the scenes" 55 minute documentary about the first
subscription series concert of the 2005/2006 season of the Fort Smith
(AR) Symphony : John Jeter, Music Director andConductor

Premiere: 2006 Hot Springs (AR) Film Festival. Subsequent screenings at film festivals across the US.

On their website home pages, many
composers these days immediately blast their innocent and unsuspecting
web visitors with ("selected") rave reviews, glowing and pontificating
press . . .

As Copland once told me: "Michael, throw out the bad
reviews because they probably don'tknow what they're talking about . . . and also throw out the good reviews because they probablydon't know what
they're talking about."

Over the years I have many received very positive and quotable reviews in The New York Times,The Chicago Sun Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, etc., but - in the spirit ofTHE LEXICON OF MUSICAL INVECTIVE - here is my personal favorite:

"Elgar would have Gagged in his Grave"

. . . coughs the DETROIT FREE PRESS headline after a Detroit Symphony Orchestra subscription series concert featuring Michael Schelle's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra and music by Edward Elgar and Sergei Prokofiev, noting that "the Elgar Symphony No. 2
is a terrible work, and the Prokofiev Symphony (No. 2) is just meaningless cacophony . . . but the
Schelle is even worse; so bad, in fact, that even Elgar - who is a terrible composer - would have gagged in his grave".

Schelle's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra went on to receive a Pulitzer Prize nomination.